COMP MODERNISMS: brazilian modernism + manifestos

tarsila do amaral, abaporu (person who eats man), 1928, oil on canvas

tarsila do amaral, anthropofagia (anthropophagy), 1929, oil on canvas

oswald de andrade, manifesto antropófago (the cannibal manifesto), 1928

tupi people

indigenous brazilians

"tupi or not tupi, that is the question"

- taken from william shakespeare's, hamlet

- "eat or be eaten" by Europeanism

joaquin torres-garcia, américa invertida (inverted america), 1943

joaquin torres-garcia

- uruguayan artist

- "the school of the south," the south is our north

américa invertida (inverted america)

- north star, a guiding light

- north america (specifically the US is a world superpower, following world war I)

- they are saying "we are worthy of paying attention to ourselves"

- they have their own rich history to look at (inka, mapuche, aztec)

sean nesselrode moncada

- art history professor at RISD

- lectured on brazilian modernism and manifestos (do amaral, de andrade, and torres-garcia)